She is currently the Philip Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell University. She has received additional fellowships from the Blue Mountain Center, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, A Public Space, and Cornell University, where she taught as an MFA lecturer in creative writing and served as an assistant editor at EPOCH Magazine. Her work can be found in The Drift, A Public Space, Narrative, and elsewhere.

NEA Creative Writing Fellowships are awarded in alternating years in prose (fiction and creative nonfiction) and poetry, giving recipients the time and space to create, revise, conduct research, and connect with readers. The program is arguably the most egalitarian grant program in its field: applications are free and open to the public; fellows are selected through an anonymous review process in which the sole criterion is artistic excellence; and the judging panel is diverse and varies year to year. 

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